Robert Quine

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. ↗

— Robert Quine

#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff. ↗

— Robert Quine

#blues #darker #emotional #factor #just

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. ↗

— Robert Quine

#blues #exhausted #got #i #into

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records. ↗

— Robert Quine

#by the time #even #five #four #gene

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home. ↗

— Robert Quine

#i #myself #never #play #played

I never really followed grunge. ↗

— Robert Quine

#grunge #i #never #really

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. ↗

— Robert Quine

#answered #auditioning #band #bands #days

I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bad #because #been #best #buddy

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying. ↗

— Robert Quine

#i #pretty #saw #suicide